Defense contractor KVG LLC was awarded a government contract worth at least $113.1 million Friday to retrofit a warehouse in the Williamsport area of Maryland and provide services to run it as a detention center, according to federal spending records.
Security contractor GardaWorld Federal Services LLC was awarded its own contract worth at least $313.4 million Friday to renovate a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona, and provide services for the operation of the ICE facility, records show.
Geo Group spokesman Chris Ferreira told The Washington Post the company will continue to provide services “that help the federal government meet its goal of increasing overall detention capacity.”
CoreCivic told The Independent the ICE detention center renovations in Maryland and Arizona are “not projects that we pursued.”
“CoreCivic isn’t a company whose business model is under threat — we’re a company whose expertise has never been more essential,” CoreCivic spokesman Steve Owen told The Washington Post. "The idea that companies with no track record in this industry can replicate the decades of operational experience, compliance infrastructure and facility management capability we have defies common sense.”
The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the newly awarded contracts, but told the publication, “ICE has new funding to expand detention space to keep these criminals off American streets before they are removed for good from our communities.”
Unrelated, but I’ve heard that mixing gasoline with styrofoam basically makes napalm. In Minecraft.
Can we track down these construction businesses and burn them down? Seriously. Burn every location to the ground.
All their headquarters are just random empty lots.
As with everything else in this administration, and say it with me:
This, too, is a scam.
That would imply the work is not going to be done. I know someone will be renovating these places and fitting them with biohazard disposal furnaces, as per the orders (golly gosh what could this be for) and I’d like to know who it is.
Any correlated spikes in Zyklon-B sales?
Concentration camps
So the suggestion here (and it is only a suggestion) is that the veteran prison-operator companies (wow yeah I guess we have those) didn’t want to get involved, didn’t even bid on these contracts. So that’s certainly food for thought. Or for speculation, anyway.
The USA is already holds the record for most prisoners per capita, why do they need more?..
El Salvador passed us in most prisoners per capita a couple of years back. They give their cops quotas to grab in their State of Exception. Accused of being in a gang? Life in torture prison, no trial. Trials hundreds or thousands at a time convicted.
313 million is an insane amount of money to throw in some bunk beds and barely feed some people
They will be known, and they will be known for this. And they will later ask: “Was it worth it?”
No they won’t. This authoritarian regime is there to stay. Americans aren’t ready to give millions of lives away to fight to fight back.
After this is all over, we’ll have to add up the corruption and graft and see what percentage of GDP that is. There are kids barely born that will have to pay back this insanity.
Follow the money and there’s bound to be a connection somewhere.
This is just beyond evil.